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SECCION LEXICAL
Transcribir y buscar en el diccionario el significado de las palabras poco
conocidas en un mnimo de 30
1. Vizconde. (De vice- y conde). m. Ttulo de honor y de dignidad con que los prncipes
soberanos distinguen a una persona. || 2. Hombre que el conde dejaba o pona
antiguamente por teniente o sustituto con sus veces y autoridad, como vicario suyo,
especialmente el que era gobernador de una provincia.
2. Embajada. (Del prov. ant. ambaissada, encargo, embajada, este del b. lat.
ambactia, y este del galo ambactus, servidor). f. Cargo de embajador. || 2.
Residencia del embajador. || 3. Oficinas del embajador. || 4. Conjunto de los
empleados que el embajador tiene a sus rdenes, y otras personas de su comitiva
oficial. || 5. Mensaje para tratar algn asunto de importancia. Se usa con preferencia
refirindose a los que se envan recprocamente los jefes de Estado por medio de
sus embajadores. || 6. coloq. Proposicin o exigencia impertinente.
3. Corpulento, ta. (Del lat. corpulentus). Adj. De gran corpulencia.
4. Languidecer. (De lnguido y -ecer). intr. Adolecer de languidez. || 2. Perder el
espritu o el vigor.
5. Espontaneidad. f. Cualidad de espontneo. || 2. Expresin natural y fcil del
pensamiento.
6. Reclutamiento. m. Accin y efecto de reclutar. || 2. Conjunto de reclutas de un ao.
7. Acicalado, da. (Del part. de acicalar). adj. Extremadamente pulcro. || 2. m. Accin
de acicalar.
8. Extremauncin. (De extrema, ltima, y uncin). f. En la religin catlica, sacramento
que consiste en la uncin con leo sagrado hecha por el sacerdote a los fieles que
se hallan en peligro inminente de morir.
9. Cascabeleo. m. Ruido de cascabeles o de voces o risas que lo semejan.
10. Archiducado. m. Dignidad de archiduque. || 2. Territorio perteneciente al
archiduque.
11. Gabinete. (Del fr. ant. gabinet, fr. cabinet). m. Habitacin ms reducida que la sala,
donde se recibe a las personas de confianza. || 2. Conjunto de muebles para un
gabinete. || 3. Oficina de un organismo encargada de atender determinados
asuntos. Gabinete particular del Ministro. Gabinete de Prensa. || 4. Local en que se
exhibe una coleccin de objetos curiosos o destinados al estudio de una ciencia o
arte. || 5. Habitacin provista de los aparatos necesarios, donde el dentista u otro
facultativo examina y trata a sus pacientes. || 6. Ministerio ( gobierno del Estado). ||
7. Ministerio ( cuerpo de ministros). || 8. Aposento que serva de tocador a las
mujeres. || 9. Col. Balcn cubierto. || De ~. loc. adj. Dicho de una persona: Que
escribe o trata de una materia, conocindola solo por teora, sin tener en ella
prctica. || 2. Dicho de una materia: Que se conoce solo por teora.
12. Capitulacin. (Del lat. capitulato, -nis). f. Concierto o pacto hecho entre dos o ms
personas sobre algn asunto, comnmente grave. || 2. Convenio en que se estipula
la rendicin de un ejrcito, plaza o punto fortificado. || 3. Conciertos que se hacen
entre los futuros esposos y se autorizan por escritura pblica, al tenor de los cuales
se ajusta el rgimen econmico de la sociedad conyugal. || 4. Escritura pblica en
que constan tales pactos.
13. Inquisidor, ra. (Del lat. inquistor, -ris). Adj. Que inquiere. U. t. c. s. || 2. m. Juez
eclesistico que conoca de las causas de fe. || 3. Hombre que hace indagacin de
algo para comprobar su realidad y sus circunstancias. || ~ apostlico. m. El
nombrado por el inquisidor general para entender, a ttulo de delegado, dentro de
una demarcacin eclesistica, en los negocios pertenecientes a la Inquisicin,
principalmente en los nombramientos de familiares, jueces de causas, etc. ||
inquisidor de Estado. m. En la repblica de Venecia, cada uno de los tres nobles
elegidos del Consejo de los Diez, que estaban diputados para inquirir y castigar los
crmenes de Estado, con poder absoluto. || Inquisidor general. m. Supremo
inquisidor, a cuyo cargo estaba el gobierno del Consejo de Inquisicin y de todos
sus tribunales. || ~ ordinario. m. Obispo o el que en su nombre asista a sentenciar
en definitiva las causas de los reos de fe.
14. Fogonazo. (De fogn). m. Llamarada instantnea que algunas materias inflamables,
como la plvora, el magnesio, etc., producen al inflamarse. || 2. Mx. Trago de
bebida alcohlica.
15. Vivaque. (Del fr. ant. bivac). m. Mil. Guardia principal en las plazas de armas, a la
cual acuden todas las dems a tomar el santo y sea. || 2. Mil. Paraje donde las
tropas vivaquean.
16. Granadero. (De granada). m. Soldado de infantera armado con granadas de mano.
|| 2. Soldado de elevada estatura perteneciente a una compaa que formaba a la
cabeza del regimiento. || 3. Coloq. Persona muy alta.
17. Enclenque. (De or. inc.). adj. Dbil, enfermizo.
18. Encorvada. f. Accin de encorvar el cuerpo. || 2. Danza descompuesta que se hace
torciendo el cuerpo y los miembros. || 3. Planta anual de la familia de las
Papilionceas, de tallos rectos, con hojas acorazonadas y en grupos pareados,
flores amarillas, sobre pednculos ms largos que la hoja, fruto en vaina de pico
curvo, y semillas rojizas y prismticas. || hacer alguien la ~. fr. coloq. Fingir
enfermedades para evadirse de una ocasin o lance a que no quiere concurrir.
19. Ruboroso, sa. Adj. Que tiene rubor.
20. Artificioso, sa. (Del lat. artificisus). adj. Hecho o elaborado con artificio, arte y
habilidad. || 2. Disimulado, cauteloso, doble.
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8. Extremauncin:
La extremauncin es la seal que inicio un camino sin retorno
9. Cascabeleo:
Las danzas rusas se caracterizan por el cascabeleo
10. Archiducado:
Antes de Velasco se podra decir que el Per era varios archiducados
11. Gabinete:
El gabinete esta formado por los secuaces del presidente
12. Capitulacin:
Bolognesi no capitulo ante los chilenos
13. Inquisidor:
La oposicin es inquisidora al gobierno
14. Fogonazo:
Los caones emitia fogonazos en la noche
15. Vivaque:
El palacio de gobierno tiene sus vivaques
16. Granadero:
Nuestros granaderos perdieron en arica pero no se rindieron
17. Enclenque:
Su cuerpo era enclenque, delataba su pobreza
18. Encorvada:
La vieja encorvada no poda erguirse
19. Ruboroso:
Cuando le hablaron de amor se puso ruboroso
20. Artificioso:
Artificioso y malo era el estafador
21. Obstinadamente:
Su amor no conoca de razocinio, era obstinado
22. Infantera:
Lo menor de nuestra infantera es el comando Chavin de Huantar
23. Magnnimo:
Su amor por su pueblo lo hacia ser magnanimo que don muchas cosas
24. Obstaculizar:
La corrupcin obstaculiza la justicia
25. Conciliar:
Conciliar es mejor que estar en juicio
26. Antesala:
La sentencia era la antesala de su triste final
27. Caoneo:
El caoneo anunciaba la libertad del pueblo oprimido
28. Condecoracin:
La condecoracin era justa ante tal titnica gesta
29. Arrendamiento:
Era justo el arrendamiento, pues usufructuaba el bien
30. Irreducible:
Aunque saban que moriran eran irreductibles
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Sinonimo
Aristcrata
Misin
Grueso
Debilitarse
Naturalidad
Alistamiento
Adornado
Vitico
Encandilo
Archiducado
Recibidor
Rendicin
Investigador
Destello
Acantonamiento
Soldado
Canijo
Torcida
Abochornado
Artero
Tercamente
Milicia
Generoso
Estorbar a
Ajustar
Recibidor
Caonear
Honor
Alquiler
Incoercible
HOMONIMOS
1. rebosar
2. rosa
3. sebo
4. segar
5. serrar
6. sidra
7. siervo
8. sueco
9. sumo
10. vers
11. ves
12. vos
13. arroyo
Antonimo
Pleve
Abandono
Flaco
Vigoroso
Forzado
Desercin
Sencillo
Salud
Silencio
Llano
Abandono
Victoria
Indiferente
Oscuridad
Abandono
Civil
Fuerte
Recta
Resuelto
Sincero
Racional
Sacerdocio
Mezquino
Posibilitar
Discordar
Patio
Tregua
Deshonor
Donacion
Cobarde
rebozar
roza (l)
cebo
cegar
cerrar
cidra
ciervo
zueco
zumo
(t) veraz
vez
voz
arrollo (yo)
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cayado
cay
desmayar(se)
gayo
haya
rayar
rayo
vaya (yo, l)
acerbo
baca
barn
basto (adj., sust.
y verbo)
baya
bazo
bello
bienes
boto,
cabo
debelar
hierba
PARONIMOS
1. absolver
2. accesible
3. actitud
4. adicin
5. alcalde
6. amable
7. aria
8. aprender
9. aprensin
10. azar
11. casual
12. corte
13. desalmado
14. descendenci
a
15. ascendencia
16. develar
17. diferente
18. diferir
19. deferencia
20. especie
21. espiar
22. espirar
23. hierro
24. infligir
25. laxitud
26. marqus
callado
call
desmallar
gallo
halla
rallar
rallo
valla
acervo
vaca
varn
vasto (adj.)
vaya (yo, l)
vaso
vello
vienes (t)
-ar voto, -ar
cavo (yo)
develar
hierva (yo, l)
absorber
asequible
aptitud
adiccin
alcaide
afable
rea
aprehender
aprehensin
azahar
causal
cohorte
desarmado
descendiente
ascendiente
desvelar
diferencia
deferente
desecar
especia
expiar
expirar
yerro
infringir
lasitud
Mrquez
Prejuicio
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perjuicio
perfecto
respeto
trastocar
vagido
prefecto
respecto
trastrocar
vaguido,
vahdo
SECCION ORTOGRAFICA
Sealando la pagina del texto transcribir
Transcribir oraciones del texto ledo donde aparezcan las siguientes palabras (si
llevan tilde o no decir porque?
-Lleva1 un pual2, mi teniente -fueron3 las primeras palabras que comprendi.
-Ah Una arma! - repuso el oficial-. Est4 bien. Ya explicar5 todo esto ante el
Consejo de Guerra. Habla usted francs6? - pregunt dirigindose7 a Pedro.
Este no contest.
-Que venga el intrprete8!
Un hombre vestido de paisano sali de las filas. Pedro reconoci en l, por el
traje y por el acento9, a uno de los empleados franceses de un almacn10 de
Mosc.
-No tengo por qu deciros quin soy. Llevadme a donde queris11 - repuso
Pedro con arrogancia.
Aquella patrulla era una de las que por orden de Durosnel recorran las calles de
Mosc para detener a los saqueadores y, sobre todo, a los incendiarios que,
segn12 la opinin que tenan los jefes franceses en aquellos momentos, eran
responsables del incendio de la ciudad
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-Parece que la pobre condesa est muy enferma. El mdico habla de una
angina de pecho.
-Hablan ustedes de la pobre condesa? - pregunt Ana Pavlovna,
acercndose13. Es la mujer ms encantadora del mundo. Es tan desgraciada.
El emperador envi al prncipe Kutusov el siguiente escrito:
'"Prncipe Ilarionovitch"
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-Es usted el hijo del conde Elias Andreievitch? Mi mujer era muy amiga de su
madre. En casa nos reunamos14 los jueves. Si lo desea, como hoy lo es, le
invito a que venga a vernos sin gastar cumplidos - dijo el gobernador al
despedirle.
Durante los das que mediaron entre estas entrevistas y la visita de Rostov, la
princesa Mara no dej de pensar en la actitud que deba adoptar, tan pronto
resolva no salir al saln cuando llegara l, dicindose15 que no era correcto
que llevando luto recibiera invitados, como pensaba que esta conducta
resultara descorts despus de lo que Nicols haba hecho por ella.
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SECCION TEMATICA
En 10 lneas decir deque se trata la obra
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IV
4.1
SECCION HISTORIOGRAFICA
Relatar pormenorizadamente cada capitulo
Libro uno
La novela comienza en la ciudad rusa de Santo Petersburg en un soir3ee dado
en julio de 1805 por Ana Pavlovna Scherer el criada-de-honor y el confidante
a la madre Maria Feodorovna de la reina Dan a conocer a los jugadores
principales y a las familias aristocrticas de la novela aqu. Pierre Bezukhov es
el hijo ilegtimo de una cuenta rica que sea el morir de un movimiento. Pierre se
embrolla inesperado en un tussle para su herencia. Se educa al exterior en
Francia con sus muertos de la madre, Pierre esencialmente kindhearted, pero
es social torpe debido la suya goodhearted, la naturaleza abierta, y los hallazgos
l difcil de integrar con la sociedad de Petersburg.
El amigo de Pierre, el prncipe inteligente y sardonic Andrei Bolkonsky, el marido
de una esposa encantadora Lise, tambin visita el soire3e. Encontrando a
sociedad de Petersburg unctuous y comenzando a encontrar vida casada poca
comodidad tambin, l elige ser un socorro-de-campo a prncipe Mikhail
Kutuzov en su guerra que viene contra Napoleon
Tolstoy entonces cambia ciudad antigua de Mosc, Rusia, como contraste a
Santo Petersburg. La familia de Rostov hizo uno de los jugadores narrativos
principales de la novela. La familia de Ilya Rostov de la cuenta de Mosc tiene
cuatro nios adolescentes. Natasha joven est en el umbral de su juventud; ella
est supuesto en amor con Boris, un oficial infantil disciplinado y un pariente.
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uno referido. Hay una indirecta en los captulos de cierre que el Nikolai idealista,
infantil Bolkonsky (15-year-old en 1820) y Pierre ambos hace parte de la
sublevacin de Decembrist El primer epilogue concluye con Nikolai Bolkonsky
prometiendo que l hara algo qu uniforme el suyo ltimo padre " sera
satisfecho... " (probablemente como revolucionario en la rebelin de Decembrist
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El segundo epilogue resume las opiniones de Tolstoy sobre la historia,
libremente voluntad y de qu maneras pueden obrar recprocamente los dos
para causar acontecimientos importantes en humankind. en un largo, el ensayo
parcialmente histrico y en parte filosfico, donde el narrador discute cmo el
hombre no puede estar enteramente liberar, o determinado enteramente por "
necesidad " y sta est traga sobre todo al dios
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4.3
V.
5.1
SECCION CRITICA
Que opinin te merece la obra
Estamos ante un monumento, una de esas catedrales gticas que se edificaban sin
tener en cuenta el nombre del arquitecto y su poca. "Guerra y Paz" (lo digo yo, lo dice
Kerouac, quin no lo dira?) constituye la obra ms perfecta y la culminacin (junto con
quiz "La Regenta") de la literatura realista. El molde clsico, nunca definido, slo
sugerido, toma en esta novela tintes picos, melodramticos, lingsticos, psicologistas,
antagonistas, republicanos, monrquicos y anrquicos. "Guerra y Paz", desde su
extensin hasta su recreacin de personajes, es una obra ambiciosa y sin freno, quiz la
obra ms grande de la literatura moderna (y tal vez de todos los tiempos).
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War and Peace depicts a huge cast of characters, both historical and fictional, Russians
and non-Russians, the majority of whom are introduced in the first book. The scope of the
novel is extremely vast, but the narration focuses mainly on five or six characters whose
differing personalities and experiences provide the impetus to the story, with mutual
interactions leading up to, around and following the Napoleonic war.
Book one
The novel begins in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, at a soire given in July 1805
by Anna Pavlovna Scherer the maid-of-honor and confidante to the queen mother
Maria Feodorovna. The main players and aristocratic families of the novel are made
known here. Pierre Bezukhov is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count who is dying of a
stroke. Pierre becomes unexpectedly embroiled in a tussle for his inheritance. Educated
abroad in France, with his mother dead, Pierre is essentially kindhearted, but is socially
awkward owing to his goodhearted, open nature, and finds it difficult to integrate with the
Petersburg society.
Pierre's friend, the intelligent and sardonic Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the husband of a
charming wife Lise, also visits the soire. Finding Petersburg society unctuous and
starting to find married life little comfort as well, he chooses to be an aide-de-camp to
Prince Mikhail Kutuzov in their coming war against Napoleon.
Tolstoy then switches to Moscow, Russia's ancient city, as a contrast to Saint Petersburg.
The Rostov family would become one of the main narrative players of the novel. The
Moscow Count Ilya Rostov family has four adolescent children. Young Natasha is at the
threshold of her youth; she is supposedly in love with Boris, a disciplined boyish officer
and a relative. Nikolai is pledging his teenage love to Sonya, his younger cousin. The
eldest child of the Rostov family, Vera, is cold and somewhat haughty but has a good
prospective marriage in a German officer Berg. Petya is the youngest of the Rostov
family; like his brother, he is impetuous and eager to join the army when of age. The
heads of the family, Count Ilya Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova, are an
affectionate couple but forever worrisome over their neglectful financial management.
At Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate, Prince Andrei leaves his pregnant wife to his
eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreivitch Bolkonsky and devoutly religious sister Maria
Bolkonskaya. He leaves for war.
The second part opens with descriptions of the impending Russian-French war
preparations. At the Schngrabern engagement, Nikolai Rostov, who is now conscripted
as ensign in a squadron of hussars, has his first baptism of fire in battle. He meets Prince
Andrei whom he does not really have a liking for. Like all young soldiers he is attracted by
Tsar Alexandrs charisma. However Nikolai gambles recklessly and socializes with the
lisping Denisov and the ruthless Dolokhov.
Book Two
Book Two begins with Nikolai Rostov briefly returning home to Moscow on home leave in
early 1806. Nikolai finds the Rostov family facing financial ruin due to poor estate
management. With Denisov he spends an eventful winter home. Natasha has blossomed
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into a beautiful young girl. Denisov proposes to her but is rejected. Although his mother
pleads with Nikolai to find himself a good financial prospect in marriage, Nikolai refuses
to accede to his mother's request. He promises to marry his childhood sweetheart, the
orphaned, penniless cousin Sonya.
If there is a central character to War and Peace it is Pierre Bezukhov, who, upon
receiving an unexpected inheritance, is suddenly burdened with the responsibilities and
conflicts of a Russian nobleman. Much of Book Two concerns his struggles with his
passions and his spiritual conflicts to be a better man. Now a rich aristocrat, his former
carefree behavior vanishes and he enters upon a philosophical quest particular to
Tolstoy: how should one live a moral life in an ethically imperfect world? The question
constantly baffles and confuses Pierre. He attempts to free his peasants, but ultimately
achieves nothing of note. He then enters into marriage with Prince Kuragin's beautiful
and immoral daughter Hlne (lena), against his own better judgement. He later joins
the Freemasons but becomes embroiled in some of the Freemasonry's politicking. He is
continually helpless in the face of his wife's numerous affairs, has a duel with one of her
lovers, and is faced with anguish as all this happens.
Pierre is vividly contrasted with the intelligent and ambitious Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. At
the Battle of Austerlitz, Andrei is inspired by a vision of glory to lead a charge of a
straggling army. He suffers a near fatal artillery wound which renders him unconscious. At
the face of death Andrei realizes all his former ambitions are pointless and his former
hero, Napoleon (who rescues him in a horseback excursion to the battlefield), is
apparently as vain as himself.
Prince Andrei recovers from his injuries in a military hospital, and returns home, only to
find his wife Lise dying during childbirth. He is struck by his guilty conscience for not
treating Lise better when she was alive.
Burdened with nihilistic disillusionment, Prince Andrei lives anonymously in his estate
until he is led to a philosophical argument with Pierre one day. When the Pierre visits his
estate he poses the question: where is God in this amoral world? Pierre points to
panentheism and an afterlife.
Young Natasha meets Andrei during her very first ball, and briefly reinvigorates Andrei
with her lively vitality. Andrei believes he has found the purpose in life again. However the
couple's immediate plan to marry has to be postponed with a year-long engagement.
When Prince Andrei leaves for his military engagements, Elena and her handsome
brother Anatole conspire for Anatole to seduce and dishonor the young, still immature
and now beautiful Natasha Rostova. They bait her with plans of an elopement. Thanks to
Sonya and Pierre, this plan fails, yet, for Pierre, it is the cause of an important meeting
with Natasha. He realizes he has now fallen in love with Natasha. During the time when
the Great Comet of 18112 streaks the sky, life appears to begin anew for Pierre.
Book Three
Natasha, shamed by her near-seduction, breaks off her engagement with Andrei. She
has a very serious illness and with the help of her family, Pierre and religious faith,
manages to tide through this dark period of her life.
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Meanwhile the whole of Russia is affected by the coming showdown between Napoleon's
troops and the Russian army. Pierre convinces himself Napoleon is the Antichrist in
Revelation through numerology. The old prince Bolkonsky dies from a stroke. In Moscow,
Petya manages to snatch a loose piece of the Tsar's biscuit outside the Cathedral of the
Assumption; he finally convinces his parents to allow him to conscript.
Meanwhile Nikolai unexpectedly acts as a white knight to the beleaguered Maria
Bolkonskaya, whose father's death has left her in the mercy of an estate of hostile,
rebelling peasants. Struck by Maria, whom he is seeing for the first time, Nikolai
reconsiders marriage and finds Maria's devotion, consideration, and inheritance
extremely attractive. But he is restricted by his earlier, youthful pledge to Sonya, and
hesitates to woo Maria.
As Napoleon pushes through Russia, Pierre decides to leave Moscow and to watch the
Battle of Borodino from a vantage point next to a Russian artillery crew. After watching for
a time, he begins to join in carrying ammunition. From within the turmoil he experiences
first-hand the death and destruction of war. The battle becomes a horrible slaughter for
both armies and ends up a standoff. The Russians, however, have won a moral victory by
standing up to Napoleon's seemingly invincible army. Having suffered huge losses and
for strategic reasons, the Russian army withdraws the next day, allowing Napoleon to
march on to Moscow.
Book Four
Book Four climaxes Napoleon's invasion of Russia. When Napoleon's Grand Army
occupies an abandoned and burning Moscow, Pierre takes off on a quixotic mission to
assassinate Napoleon. He becomes an anonymous man in all the chaos, shedding his
responsibilities by wearing peasant clothes and shunning his duties and lifestyle. The
only person he sees while in this garb is Natasha, who recognizes him, and he in turn
realizes the full scope of his love for her.
His plan fails, and he is captured in Napoleon's headquarters as a prisoner of war after
saving a child from a burning building and assaulting a French legionnaire for attacking a
woman. He becomes friends with his cell-mate Platn Karataev, a peasant with a saintly
demeanor, who is incapable of malice. In Karataev Pierre finally finds what he is looking
for, an honest, "rounded" person who is totally without pretense. Karataev is unlike those
from the Petersburg aristocratic society, and also notably a member of the working class,
with whom Pierre finds meaning in life simply by living and interacting with him. After
witnessing French soldiers sacking Moscow and shooting Russian civilians arbitrarily,
Pierre is forced to march with the Grand Army during its disastrous retreat from Moscow
owing to the harsh winter. After months of trial and tribulation during which Karataev is
capriciously shot by the French Pierre is later freed by a Russian raiding party after a
small skirmish with the French that sees the young Petya Rostov killed in action.
Meanwhile Andrei, wounded during Napoleons invasion, is taken in as a casualty cared
for by the fleeing Rostovs. He is reunited with Natasha and sister Maria before the end of
the war. Having lost all will to live after forgiving Natasha, he dies, much like the death
scene at the end of The Death of Ivan Ilych.
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As the novel draws to a close, Pierres wife Elena dies (sometime during the last throes
of Napoleons invasion); and Pierre is reunited with Natasha, while the victorious
Russians rebuild Moscow. Natasha speaks of Prince Andreis death and Pierre of
Karataevs. Both are aware of a growing bond with each other in their bereavement.
Matchmade by Princess Marya, Pierre finds love at last and, revealing his love after
being released from his former wifes death, marries Natasha.
Epilogues
The first epilogue begins with the wedding of Pierre and Natasha, in 1813. It is the last
happy event for the Rostov family which is going through a transition. Count Ilya Rostov
dies soon after, leaving the eldest son Nikolai to take charge of the debt-ridden estate.
Nikolai finds himself with the near-impossible task of maintaining the family on the verge
of bankruptcy. His pride almost gets in the way of him, but Nikolai finally accedes to his
mother's wish and marries the now-rich Marya Bolkonskaya in winter 1813, both out of
feeling and out of the necessity to save his family from ruin.
Nikolai Rostov and Marya then move to Bald Hills with his mother and Sonya, whom he
supports for the rest of their life. Buoyed on by his wife's funds, Nikolai pays off all his
family's debts. They also raise Prince Andrei's orphaned son, Nikolai Bolkonsky.
Like in all marriages there are minor squabbles but the couples Pierre and Natasha,
Nikolai and Marya remain devoted to their spouses. Pierre and Natasha visit Bald Hills
in 1820, to much jubilation from everyone concerned. There is a hint in the closing
chapters that the idealistic, boyish Nikolai Bolkonsky (15-year-old in 1820) and Pierre
would both become part of the Decembrist Uprising. The first epilogue concludes with
Nikolai Bolkonsky promising he would do something which even his late father "would be
satisfied" (presumably as a revolutionary in the Decembrist revolt).
The second epilogue sums up Tolstoys views on history, free will and in what ways the two may
interact to cause major events in humankind. in a long, partially historical and partly philosophical
essay, where the narrator discusses how man cannot be wholly free, or wholly determined by
"necessity" and this is primarily down to God.
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